The greatest gift you can give your children is to believe in them.
JIM VALVANOI’ll also tell you that five hundred thousand people will die this year of cancer. And I’ll also tell you that one in every four will be afflicted with this disease, and yet, somehow, we seem to have put it in a little bit of the background.
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I talked about my family, my family’s so important.
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All really successful coaches have a system.
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I will thank God for the day and the moment I have.
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How do you go from where you are to where you wanna be? And I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it.
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Each day, be sure to laugh, to think, to cry; that’s one heckuva full day.
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People think I have courage. The courage in my family are my wife Pam, my three daughters, here, Nicole, Jamie, LeeAnn, my mom, who’s right here too.
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Coaches are basically schizophrenic. We are pessimistic to the press and among fellow coaches, but to our team, we are the eternal optimists.
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A person really doesn’t become whole, until he becomes a part of something that’s bigger than himself.
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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
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We have a very intelligent team. I’ve had clubs that when you tell a guy to go back door, he leaves the gym. Or you tell the team you’re going to have a closed practice and eight guys don’t show up.
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And if you see me, smile and maybe give me a hug. That’s important to me too.
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There are 86,400 seconds in a day. It’s up to you to decide what to do with them.
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I can’t tell you what an honor it is, to even be mentioned in the same breath with Arthur Ashe. This is something I certainly will treasure forever.
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If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day.
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Every day ordinary people do extra-ordinary things!
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